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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Friday, April 13, 2007 8:48:43 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, September 4, 2004 4:53:24 pm | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
@@ -1,35 +1,36 @@
-Have some shiny
new BitstreamVera
fonts? Can't get them working in OpenOffice? Well then....
+!! Installing
new fonts
-When loading OpenOffice looks for TrueType or Type1 Fonts in
the following places:
+''Note: I don’t know how useful
the following is. <tt>chkfontpath</tt> appears to be a RedHat-ism, and is possibly obsolete as well.'' —[AristotlePagaltzis]
-* The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
fonts/Type1
-* The output of
the command /usr/sbin/chkfontpath
-* The fontpath as returned by XGetFontPath()
-* Directories given by the environment variable SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE, usually this variable is set by the soffice script to "openoffice_dir"/share/fonts/truetype
+When loading, [OpenOffice.org] looks for TrueType or Type1
fonts in
the following places:
-This method uses the output of chkfontpath.
-As root:
- # mkfontdir
/usr/share
/fonts/bitstream-vera
/
-This creates a fonts.dir file in your BitstreamVera fonts directory.
- #
chkfontpath -a
/usr
/share/fonts/bitstream-vera
/
-This adds
the directory to
the chkfontpath list
+* In <tt>
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
/fonts/Type1<
/tt>
+* In the output of the command <tt>
chkfontpath<
/tt>
+* In the fontpath as returned by <tt>XGetFontPath()<
/tt>
+* In the directories listed in the EnvironmentVariable <tt>SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE</tt>, which is usually set to <tt>
share/fonts/truetype<
/tt> below
the installation path of [OpenOffice.org] by
the <tt>soffice</tt> launcher
-Now retstart OpenOffice and look at your pretty new fonts :-)%%%
-You may like
to change
the default font under Tools
> Options
> Text Document
> Basic Fonts
.
+This method
to install fonts hooks into
the output of <tt
>chkfontpath</tt
>. We’ll assume you have copied a font family called ''Foob Ar'' into <tt
>/usr/share/fonts/foobar/</tt>. The following commands have to be issued as root
.
-Most of this information was sourced from the [OpenOffice Font FAQ|http:
//www.openoffice.org
/FAQs
/fontguide.html] which has some interesting information regarding
a whole lot of font problems with OpenOffice.
+ <verbatim>
+ mkfontdir
/usr
/share
/fonts
/foobar
+ chkfontpath -
a /usr/share/fonts/foobar/
+ </verbatim>
+This creates a <tt>fonts.dir</tt> file in your font family directory, then adds the directory to <tt>chkfontpath</tt>’s list. Now retstart [OpenOffice.org] and your pretty new fonts should be available. You may like to change the default font under <i>Tools → Options → Text Document → Basic Fonts</i>.
-__Using Windows fonts from a mount point
__
+__See also
__ the [OpenOffice.org Font FAQ | http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html.
-If you're trying to include your windows TTF
fonts that are in your your c:\windows\fonts folder then you may need to create
a truetype font folder on a linux filesystem which has symlinks to all the fonts on your VFAT or NTFS partition.
-Eg:
+! Using Windows
fonts from
a mount point
- cd
/usr/share/fonts
- mkdir truetype
- cd truetype
- ln -s
/mnt/win_c/windows/fonts/
*.ttf .
+To include the TrueType fonts from your MicrosoftWindows installation you need to create a font directory with SymLink~s to all the fonts on your Windows partition. Assuming the fonts are in <tt>C:\windows\fonts</tt> and the C: partition of Windows is mounted on <tt>/mnt/win_c</tt> in [Linux], you have to do the following (as root):''''
+
+ <verbatim>
+ mkdir
/usr/share/fonts/winfonts
+ cd /mnt/win_c/windows/fonts
+ ln -s
*.ttf *
.TTF /usr/share/fonts/winfonts
+ cd /usr/share/fonts/winfonts
ttmkfdir
mkfontdir
- chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/truetype
+ chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/winfonts
fc-cache
+ </verbatim>
